Just when You Thought that Cities Couldn’t Get Any Bigger

Those of us who have lived in a large city know all about the overcrowding, the frequent heavy traffic and traffic jams, air pollution and smog and other problems that you associate with living in the big city.

China doesn’t see any reason to let this hold it back though, as it plans to create a mega city of 42 million people, and to spend billions on the transportation and communications infrastructure to achieve it and make sure it works.

In this edition of News From A Weird World, you can find some really weird stories that include joining the US Army to become a US Citizen, the Prime Minister Pen Snatcher, the soap actor who died 5 times in a day, attack of the flying vacuum cleaners, beware of giant flying fish and more.

In this edition of News From A Weird World, a woman slaps child on a school bus, another mother fights her kids over a perm, a man tapes a boy to chair in school, 10 year old girl is made designated driver, goats disrupt Nigerian elections, happier news from New Zealand and more.

Adam Potter, who is 36 and comes from Glasgow, had just climbed to the summit of a mountain, when he lost his footing, and plunged 1,000 feet off a nearly vertical slope and over three rocky crags. He recalls the fall as being “like on a water slide, only more painful”